One Second After
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Description de l’éditeur
A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons.
New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.
Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America. In the tradition of On the Beach, Fail Safe and Testament, this book, set in a typical American town, is a dire warning of what might be our future...and our end.
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In this entertaining apocalyptic thriller from Forstchen (We Look Like Men of War), a high-altitude nuclear bomb of uncertain origin explodes, unleashing a deadly electromagnetic pulse that instantly disables almost every electrical device in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. Airplanes, most cars, cellphones, refrigerators all are fried as the country plunges into literal and metaphoric darkness. History professor John Matherson, who lives with his two daughters in a small North Carolina town, soon figures out what has happened. Aided by local officials, Matherson begins to deal with such long-term effects of the disaster as starvation, disease and roving gangs of barbarians. While the material sometimes threatens to veer into jingoism, and heartstrings are tugged a little too vigorously, fans of such classics as Alas, Babylon and On the Beachwill have a good time as Forstchen tackles the obvious and some not-so-obvious questions the apocalypse tends to raise. Newt Gingrich provides a foreword.
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A great book, but still..
I was a bit skeptical at the beginning, EMP is a real threat, underestimate and missunderstood. A lot of books and movies are picturing it wrong, with a lot of clichés.
But the author did a great research job here, and what I found impressive is his ability to make it simple: sometimes a good metaphor is best than every lecture.
Characters have a real depth, it still looks like a fiction novel, but it is also a warning and a goldmine about survival informations that stays accessible and enjoyable by everyone.
Only reason why It's not a 5star novel for me is because all the long it is "too much american" for me, and I guess for a lot of non american readers.
Yes, it pictures what an EMP would look like seen by some small-town guys of South Carolina, but too much patriotism is too much, and sometimes it doesn't feels real anymore, at the edge of a bad anticipation movie with muscular (but still, smart) guys that value their guns , their church and family like good Christians, loosing every ounce of personal identity the author had previously built for them.